Continental Casualty Co. v. Morris

TALBOT, Associate Justice.

Appellee, Morris, sued the appellant, The Continental Casualty Company, to recover the sum of five hundred dollars, alleged to be due Ms wife, Mrs. Ophelia Morris, on an accident insurance policy issued by appellant on the life of Hawkins Morris, son of appellee and the said Mrs. Morris. The petition, so far as is necessary to state, alleged that the “defendant executed and delivered unto the said Hawkins Morris its policy of insurance in writing, whereby the said defendant insured the life of said Hawkins Morris against external, violent and purely accidental means,…